In a bombshell interview, Annastacia Palaszczuk says she has been told the LNP government’s Olympic review committee has already decided to go ahead with a Victoria Park stadium.
Former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has torched her former deputy and successor Steven Miles, as well as the current LNP government, over preparations for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
Palaszczuk said planning and construction would already be under way if her plan to rebuild the Gabba remained locked in.“Everything’s getting unpicked. I often describe it as like, if you’re knitting a sweater and someone pulls a bit of wool, it’s all going to come untangled and everyone is pulling bits of wool out of this sweater.”
Victoria Park is 64 hectares of open green space in Brisbane’s inner city, spanning the suburbs of Herston, Kelvin Grove and Spring Hill.She said she had held her tongue about the Miles government’s decision to use the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre at Nathan as the main Olympic stadium, which she described as “an absolutely ridiculous idea”.
“There was a plan, there was a new norm,” she said, referring to the IOC’s push to use existing venues to avoid host cities being left with unnecessary infrastructure.
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